Arbor Realty Trust Inc (NYSE: ABR): Think Like A Lender, Not An Investor

Arbor Realty Trust Inc (NYSE:ABR) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.40M but it saw 2865933 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 2.34B USD, the company’s current market price of $12.36 came rising about 0.41 while comparing to the previous closing price of $12.31. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $15.94 and as low as $11.43. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $12.31 while lowest mark touched by it was $12.55.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Arbor Realty Trust Inc (ABR) gives us an average price of $12.19, while its current price level is -22.46% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 8.14% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $13.01 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $13.94. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.10% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.37%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 45.61 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Wedbush downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Outperform” on April 11, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $17-$13. Piper Sandler also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock is $16.

Over the week, ABR’s stock price is moving 2.49% up while it is -10.56% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -10.76% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -3.36%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-20, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.3 while estimate for next year EPS is 1.22. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $78.98M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $317.85M and seeing the company making $337.19M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $77.42M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Arbor Realty Trust Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 189.26M with 2.50% of that held by the insiders while 66.59% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 2.20% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.62%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 10.88 while having a 9.09 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.62. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.98 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.63. Its return on asset (ROA) is 1.81% on average.